This book completes the expository work begun by Walter Brueggemann in his popular ITC volume on Jeremiah 1-25. To Pluck Up, To Tear Down. In face of the terrible coming destruction of Jerusalem, the prophet Jeremiah proclaims that God's resilient power is at work to build and to plant. Offering a fresh look at critical theological issues in the Jeremiah tradition. Brueggemann demonstrates how this tradition in its anguish and in its buoyancy powerfully mediates to us God's sovereign hurt and fidelity in ways that shock our intellectual self-confidence and invite us to reengage life with courage awe and submissiveness.